6/5/09

This is an old trip from last friday. I ventured to the beach on the way home. I had high hopes that were quickly dashed once I saw how high the tide was. The wind was blowing in hard and the water was up a lot. The waves were making booming noises as they crashed against the cliffs. Far from ideal conditions, but I decided to make a go for it. I made my way down the beach not finding too much just small teeth here and there. I went to an area that had been productive before and had some sucess there again. I found two cow shark teeth with mostly complete roots. I found my first "hubble" meg, which would have been even better nice if one of the root lobes hadn't broken off. There was also a decent mako and hemipristis tooth. I noticed a while before I decided to pack it in that a thunderstorm was coming. Well, once I was on my way back in the rain started along with thunder. This made for an interesting trip back to the car. So I had to deal with all the usual obstacles (downed trees.. submerged rocks... slippery clay) along with rougher than normal waves, a thunderstorm, water splashing from against the cliff face soaking me. I knew I needed to get out of there quickly and somehow I managed to not fall on the way back. And thankfully there was no lightning. It was quite the eventful trip. I made it out in one piece with some nice teeth so all was well in the end.

Mega ditto's on the lower cows - they're my favorite shark tooth! I used to find at least one nice lower per month - years ago. Now, I find one...hmmm, rarely! I'm due! I can't complain since I have many already, but I can never get enough of them.